Salha says that postdocs are kept separate from the mainstream drug-discovery program of the company and are free to publish and present their work once it has been cleared of proprietary value.
Intellectual property should be protected — an artist's work has no less proprietary value than a corporation's, and of course it deserves strident safeguarding.
Isolated from clients and it was once thought assets with proprietary value, technologists bounce from firm to firm, from one high-rise building to another.To this footloose community, the case of Sergey Aleynikov, a Goldman Sachs programmer, came as a shock.
Moreover, scientists are often secretive about preliminary data in fear of being wrong or being ?scooped.? This might be particularly true in today?s climate, which emphasizes the proprietary value of patents and intellectual property.
Sony must find new ways to add proprietary value to its products that the other Asian manufacturers can't mimic, and content looks like a good way to do so.
"We have to add proprietary value to our software offering to attract the developers and customers," says DeWitt, who left a cushy job to turn Cobalt into a large Internet infrastructure company.
As such, startups like Cloudera, DataStax and MuleSoft are generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year from real enterprise customers by selling proprietary, value-added products around their open projects.
But then what happens to them is, as the dominant architecture becomes open and modular, the value of their proprietary design becomes commoditized itself.
Historically, people have provided value through their proprietary content, process or service.
Mr. Alessandrini shares their proprietary affection and their concerns.
